General Advice

How long are the part time immersion courses?

I'm a full time employee at a learning company in Cary where I am a multimedia developer. I am fluent with html / CSS / some sass and JavaScript. My goals currently are to learn JavaScript enough to create more dynamic pages and also to become fluent enough to create decent 2 d level games with JavaScript. Would there be any courses that fit this description and that I would be able to do after work and still get home in time to be with my wife and daughter?

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You'll have to research the options in your area, but I can tell you how I do part-time at my school. I hold classes four days a week for two hours each (M-Th) and the from 8 am until 12 pm on Saturday. There are office hours on top of that and mandatory code reviews.

My program is 16-18 weeks (depending on whether or not you take the pre-course) and I break the main section into 4 classes that are 4 weeks long each. I leave a gap week of office hours at the end of each class (so they are really 5 weeks long) so that you can finish your projects.

I think that gives a good balance of lecture time and project time. My goal is not to teach you everything in 16-18 weeks, but rather to teach you to master a reasonable amount that you can build on after the bootcamp ends. I use the analogy of pouring water into a bucket. I can dump a million gallons on a 5 gallon bucket, but it's still only going to hold 5 gallons at a time! I believe that the human mind needs time to absorb what's being taught to truly learn.

If you'd like to learn more about my program check out: http://codecareeracademy.com/